The Python Special Interest Group took up the gauntlet thrown down by Jim Kuzdrall and came up with code that would parse the TWiki pages of attendance figures and produce a comma-separated-value text file.
On the page PastEvents [1], you'll see links for 'CSV format' next to the calendar years. On the pages PastEvents2007, PastEvents2006 and PastEvents2005, you'll see an attachment that holds the CSV and can be updated as we clean up the data. It's early, and the data is crude, but 'ship early, ship often.' Even in this stage, PySIG members were surprised and pleased to note that attendance at PySIG is only second to MerriLUG! On the page ParsingPastEvents, there's links to the notes about the PySIG meeting where we held the code sprint, got Kent's coaching on the basics of using BeautifulSoup, and links to the actual code used to do the parsing, one to a PySIG mailing list email, and one attached to the TWiki page. These should be fun to analyze. If anyone has time to load the data into a spreadsheet and do some analysis, consider posting the sheet and/or results to the ParsingPastEvents TWiki page. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
